Practise Animation

Practise Animation - Godzilla

These two animations are made by me and Marcus. I designed the tank to use in the animation. Marcus  and I made the Godzilla for the animation. I enjoyed making these models.

Tank

 Godzilla

Background

The animation is filmed on had I Stop Motion. The settings for filming had to be Lage Widescreen with the speed being12 FPS. When you move make a new scene an onion skin is created. Finally slow is good.

Animation before Titles and credits 

I have produced a stop motion animation about Godzilla. Overall I felt the project went well because of the well designed models we made. One thing I would improve is the background and the set.

Adding Sound

To add sound to my movie I had to do a few thing:

1. Collect the sounds I used

2. Get all the right sounds on the right levels 

3. Add fade in and  outs to the music to where I want them

Some problems that I found was getting the sound levels right for all the effects so I could here what I wanted 

Final Movie

Evaluation

Overall I found this project went well because I found I stop motion easy to use because I have used it before and I knew how to use it. When editing my sound effects I found some problems with the sounds but I got them sorted out in the end. If I could change something I would change the background.

Animation 1960-1970's

US Animation

Wacky Racers

Wacky Racers was a cell based animation done by Hannah Barbara in 1968. The show was famous for its villain Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Mutely. A general episode would have comical antics as races take place to the finish lane.

Top Cat 

Top Cat was done by Hannah Barbara in 1961. The show was famous for the main character T.C (Top Cat). A typical episode was T.C and his ally cats trying to make money and invade Officer Dibble. The show is based off Bilko a 50's TV show.It was a cell based animation

Road Runner

Road Runner was a cell based animation done by Wanner Brothers in 1965 about the main character Wile Coyote and his antics trying to catch the Road Runner but fail.

UK Animation

The Clangers

The Clangers was a model based animation done by Oliver Postgate in 1969. The show is about the adventures of the clangers with the characters on the moon. 

Trumpton

Trumpton was a model based animation in 1967 done by Oliver Postgate and was about the adventures in the town

Bagpus

Bagpus was a  model based animation done by Oliver Postgate in 1974 and it is about the adventures of Bagpus and his friends in a shop.

Animation 1930's - 1950's

Animation 1930's - 1950's

Disney

Disney in the 1930's started to make feature length animations which included film techniques to make it like a movie. Snow White was first successful animation movie.

Fleischer 

A rival of Disney was Fleischer which made animations for an adult audience. The early Popeye and Betty Boop animations were for adults with drug references.

Fred Quimby 

Fred Quimby worked for the Hannah & Barbara Corporation wo did Heaven Puss (bellow) and did other classic Tom and Jerry.

This was done using cell based animation this is done by do a drawing then a clear sheet of plastic is put on top of it and then you paint the outline of the drawing then you take off the sheet of plastic and paint out the back and then you photograph it then you go back to the drawing and trace around it with another sheet of plastic but with small differences then you paint it and photograph it again. This must be done 25 times for every second of animation.

Art Clokey

Gumby was created by Art Gumby. He became famous for mainly using clay models.   

TV Cartoons From The 50's

History Of Animation

History Of Animation

George Melies

George Melies was a french illusionist and filmaker who accidentally discovered a substitution stop trick in 1896 when he was filming a traffic scene with a omnibus but the camera jammed and when it started again he started it again and filmed the was a herse in the scene so it looked like the bus had transformed into a herse. There are just over 200 films left out of 400 because most of them were melted down to silver for bullets and the plastic for shoe heels in WW1. For his own films he made his own sets and sometimes starred in is own films.

One of his famous animations was called Voyage to the moon

Winsor McCay 

Winsor McCay was a famous american cartoonist and a animator. His famous work was his comic strip Little Nemo and his animated film Gertie The Dinosaur. For his animations he used giant sheets of paper to draw on and hand colou each of his drawings. Also in his animations he made his cartoons be able to stretch and distort because he had such an imagination.

Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger was a german silhouette animator who used black paper which was cut out. She also cut out separate parts for arms and legs to make them look like they are moving. One of her famous pieces was Prince Achmed.

Walt Disney 

Walt Disney made Steamboat Willie in 1928 which was the first to use sound which paved a way to do new styles of animation.

My Own Animation and Pixilation

Pixilation - How it is done

Pixilation is done by using real people instead of models. You take photos of the people who are stood still that do a different action each time and when they are played back it give the impression of movement.

The first animation done with this was created by Norman Maclaren in 1952 called Neighbors  In some of the scenes they jump up and the photographer would have had to get the photo when they were exactly in the air.

Another animation using this technique is by PES called Human Skateboard. In the film there would be scenes that would have been hard to because in one scene the actor playing the skateboard would have had to balance exactly on the curb.

My Own Animation 

I have created a pixilation animation where you take one picture after another and and when you play it back it gives the illusion of animation. I have used Jacob Heaton in my group to create it.

How We See Animation

How do we see animation

The way we see animation is by having pictures one after the other and the brain is tricked into see the image moving one after the other. It works if the image seen is between 1/25 and 1/12. This is called persistance of vision.


Early types of animation

In the past animation was viewed in different ways one of those ways is by using a device called the zoetrope. The earliest known one is from China in 180 by the inventor Ting Huan.

It works by using a cylinder which has holes cut on the side and has images which go in the inside. Each of the images are different one after the other. When you look through the slits it gives the illusion that the images are moving.

Phenakistoscope

The phenakistoscope was invented in 1841 by Joseph Plaateau. It works by having a having a disc with images on after the other which are different and when the disc is spun it gives the impression that the images are moving.

Kinetoscope 

The kinetoscope was invented by Thomas Edison. It works by having a series of photographs on a drum which flick one after each other giving the impression the images are moving.

Mutoscope

The Mutoscope was a early motion picture device that works by putting a coin in and pulling a hand crank which then a person would look through a lens and the pictures inside would get shown one after the other.

Famous Animators

Famous Animators

Tex Avery

Tex Avery had great drawing skills and great story-lines. The band that played the music fitted the cartoon and added to the comedy.  Sound effects were added when the cartoon was played 

These are videos done by Tex Avery who is a famous animator who does cell animations . The first video is about a cat messing with a dog by making his voice sound different because of a toy it found.

The second video is about a dog who wants to hunt rabbits but it is too late in the day to hunt so he goes to sleep but keeps getting awoken by different circumstances.


Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam is a famous animator who does cut out animations.

This video is about people attempting to fly but keep failing so they try different methods but still fail.

The second video is about a man who has dancing teeth.